Microvoluta cythara

Microvoluta cythara is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.[1]

Microvoluta cythara
Shell of Microvoluta cythara (museum specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutomitridae
Genus:
Microvoluta
Species:
M. cythara
Binomial name
Microvoluta cythara
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004

Distribution

This species occurs in the Coral Sea and off New Caledonia.

References
  1. Microvoluta cythara Bouchet & Kantor, 2004. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Bouchet P. & Kantor Y. 2004. New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae). Systematics and Biodiversity 1(4): 467–502


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